Creating ePub files with Pages. ePub is an open ebook standard produced by the International Digital Publishing Forum. Pages ’09 lets you export your documents in ePub format for reading with iBooks on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. iBooks supports both ePub and PDF file formats, and you can export both from Pages. When to use ePub or PDF Use ePub when text is the most important part of your document, for example when you create a book, a report, a paper, a thesis, or classroom reading material.
Optimized for iBooks features such as changes in text size, font, and orientation (rotating your device between landscape or portrait). Support for video embedded in a document. Use PDF when layout is the most important part of your document, for example when you create a brochure, a flyer, or a manual with multiple illustrations. Preserves all content, formatting, and fonts as you intended. Creating an ePub Document to Read in iBooks Preparing an existing Pages document for export to ePub format Exporting your document to ePub format.
ePub Bud - Publish, Convert, Store, and Download free children's ebooks online for the iPad and nook color! iTunes U Now Lets Teachers Invite Students to Lesson Plans. Apple's online educational catalog, iTunes U, updated its app and website on Wednesday by adding enhanced features to make it even more convenient for students and educators. Now, educators have the ability to distribute courses privately and invite students to take them. Any teacher can signup to offer courses via iTunes U. Launched in 2007, iTunes U allows member educational institutions to manage and share content for students. Shortly after the new iPad was unveiled in March, the iTunes U app was touted as being able to bring online classes to mobile.
Through the app, teachers can upload a course syllabus, arrange audio, video and iBooks onto iTunes U. Also introduced on Wednesday are "powerful new note taking features for audio and video let students easily search their notes. " SEE ALSO: Why the iPad Won’t Transform Education — Yet In January, six universities created more than 100 free courses available on iTunes U. What do you think about iTunes U? 5 Ideas for using iBooks Author and iBooks 2 « iteach Lounge. Introduction When the original iPad first arrived there was buzz about how this device could change education. Schools began adopting iPad programs. The iPad is an informational consumption device through which a learner can consume massive amounts of information through their ear and eye channels.
Learners could even customize the information slightly, a tenet of UDL. If a learner needed larger text they could pinch and zoom with their hands and of course turn up or down any audio. Student Produced Lessons The big buzz right now about Apple’s new iBooks 2 and iBooks Author app is the interactivity textbook publishers can bring to the classroom. Inclusive Design Awareness What is really great about iBooks Author is the upfront approach to accessibility. Digital Storytelling Enhancement Digital Storytelling has been around for a while now in classroom education. Supplement your classroom Teaching Final Project Portfolio <a href=" Our Poll</a> Like this: iPads in the Classroom.
5 Ideas for using iBooks Author and iBooks 2 « iteach Lounge. iPad Starter Set: Collection of 70+ iPad Apps, Nearly All Free. iPad Academy reached another milestone! From Nov. 1 to Dec. 1, Google reports the iPad Academy blog had 50,045 visits. Many thanks to our new and returning visitors for making this blog so popular. To celebrate this achievement, I’m sharing a list of 70+ apps I created to help show the versatility of the iPad. I made this list as a “starter set” for those new to the iPad.
Most of these apps are free. There are apps for adults and children, including apps for work, for learning and just plain fun. Every app has a live link to the app description page to make it easy for you to decide which ones you want. Directions for viewing the file: On your computer, click on the iPad App Starter Set link below to open the PDF. On your iPad Tap on the iPad App Starter Set link below to open the PDF. Tap the button and the PDF will be added to your iBooks collection on your iPad. iPad App Starter Set Link.
iPad Academy - Learn How to Use the iPad | Tutorials, Tips & Training. iBooks Author: Multi-Touch Book Creation With a Big Catch. While it’s no secret that iBooks hasn’t been a runaway success as Apple had hoped, the company is trying their hand at revolutionizing the book industry once more -but this time they’ve shifted their efforts towards the education market. Along with the new iBooks 2, Apple introduced iBooks Author, their simplistic, yet feature-rich solution for creating textbooks, cookbooks, and just about any other kind of book, for the iPad. In making the app both user-friendly and free, Apple is clearly striving to make publishing available “for the rest of us”. Although the app is free, many will argue that the price of staying within the Apple ecosystem is too high for the budding author.
So do the benefits outweigh the negatives? Interface The iBooks Author interface should be familiar to most Mac users. Anyone familiar with the look and feel of the iWork suite of apps should feel right at home in iBooks Author. Writing your Book Historically, publishing an ebook was no easy task. Designing your Book.